Orthogonal
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I'll keep chugging
Think of the first 3 to 5 hours of your time in a Souls game as an investment in your gaming skills.
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Think of the first 3 to 5 hours of your time in a Souls game as an investment in your gaming skills.
The_Buttman
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The only thing you lose on death is your blood echoes. And your pride.
IAmRandom31
Banned
My god the architecture in this game is absolutely incredible
No. You only lose insight when you try to summon someone. Even if the summoning fails... Reminds me of Dark Souls 1 before they fixed Cracked red eye orbs.
flipswitch
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Can you compare item stats when buying them? I can't sem to find a way to, so I don't know which is better.
DealWithIt
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It may happen yet for you. One thing to remember is that there are no trivial enemies. One thing people like about the game is that you have to be alert and trying all the time. The game requires skill and concentration at all times.
As far as repetitive run throughs: you get faster at the fights and they get easier. Exploring yields a lot of shortcuts. It can be rewarding that way. I have never played a game with more unlockable shortcuts than this.
I've decided to go the other way. Yeah,they keep cornering me lol.
Primethius
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BreezyLimbo
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You have to go into the Hunters dream, in the house on the hill there's a storage near the rightmost entrance to it.
I think only vials/bullets refill automatically.
GoldenCrow
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No but there is a short cut:
After the area with the bonfire, the area with the guy banging on the door before you go down the small stairs if you keep going straight there are coffins at the end, smash them and drop down. From there go through the building, up a small set of stairs on the other side of the building and up a larger set and open the gate. Now from here head to the house you passed through and climb the stairs inside and out the door onto the bridge behind the wolves and head left, you can just run past the crows and the brick guy (should only take a min if you happen to die at the boss). Thanks to Hoje0308 for pointing that out as I would have told you the longer route to get to the short cut.
Try to use your weapon's secondary mode to keep the monsters at a distance with longer-ranged attacks. Heal often (Triangle). If you lose health, you can get some back for a temporary period after the hit by attacking any enemy. Use wide sweeping attacks if you're worried about missing. Be constantly moving so that attacks are less likely to connect. Be wary around anyone wielding a torch, because torches fuck you up like nothing else.
And if worst comes to worst, grind for some souls to buy molotov cocktails.
hipsterpants
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Please tell me how to beat the cleric boss (I know about the riposte).
Primethius
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Pride needs to be checked in at the door.
Orthogonal
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and 30+ seconds of your life to load time.
Dusktildawn48
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Still can't find this fucking music box.
KingHenrik30
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Never played a Souls game before. Holy shit what the fuck is going on?
Kevin Shields
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So what do you all think about the replay ability in bloodborne? Not as high as the souls games?
Orthogonal
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Anyone with an SSD care to comment on load time improvement?
Revolutionary
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An "official gear coming soon!" tile just showed up on the game page.
Can't wait to buy my own trick weapons!
Can't wait to buy my own trick weapons!
Yeah losing blood echos is nothing compared to the 45 seconds of sitting there pissed off.
Turdburger
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Have been stuck on
for 3.5 hours... I was attempting her at level 28 and apparently from what I'm reading that's extremely low. Blah. Looks like I need to get to 35-40 to make the fight considerably easier.
I really preferred the Estus system to constantly having to re-farm consumables while you figure out boss fights. This kind of sucks.
Amelia
I really preferred the Estus system to constantly having to re-farm consumables while you figure out boss fights. This kind of sucks.
This is my early gripe with the game. I tried to summon someone, it ate up an insight, and nothing happened. Really disappointing since the summoning worked so well in Dark Souls 2 on day one.
Orthogonal
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Settle in, get comfy, try not to get frustrated and soak it all up. It all comes in time.
You can riposte it? I just butt stabbed it a bunch of times and threw 3 molotovs on my 3rd try. Worked fine.
If you have a ton of molotovs stocked up they do a shitload of damage, and also sometimes it's better not to dodge him and instead just calmly walk to his ass.
I am 18 hours in and I am just floored by how much there is to discover in this game. I revisited an area I thought I had explored thoroughly only to discover I'd missed TWO substantial secret rooms. One of which required a leap of faith to discover, falling onto ledges I wasn't quite sure would hold me.
I had high expectations but so far this is exceeding them.
I had high expectations but so far this is exceeding them.
...Scatter...
Banned
What's the point of view specter?
IAmRandom31
Banned
With the chalice dungeons and overall enjoyment of a playthrough so far? Far more if you ask me.
But I'll wait for final judgement till I'm done. I'm barely even getting going but can already see myself replaying with every weapon in the game. Then god knows how much you'll get out of the chalice dungeons
Oh, cool. I'm guessing I should just use all my Madman's Knowledge items then?
InternHertz
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Well I'm done for the day.
My fight against V
A
went like this:
- first try, I got owned really quick
- second try, nice one that ended in a Double KO
With this I learned that contrary to other Souls games, a Double KO isn't automatically your loss! My blood echoes were waiting for me in the boss room and I got the item correctly before the end of the death screen.
I like this change.
My fight against V
icar
melia
- first try, I got owned really quick
- second try, nice one that ended in a Double KO
With this I learned that contrary to other Souls games, a Double KO isn't automatically your loss! My blood echoes were waiting for me in the boss room and I got the item correctly before the end of the death screen.
I like this change.
You could in dark souls with the triangle toggle stats button. Don't have Bloodborne yet myself, so not sure if it's the same.
the black pearl
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There's a way to cheese them.
Run past them into the house (unless your starting from the house). If you get them to follow you they stop at the doorway and you can get them with a long slash.
razgriz417
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Ah thank you!
They're supposed to be like bloodstains in the souls games where you see the last moments of someones life. Most of them seem to be broken though,
Wouldn't hurt. And at 10 insight you get the ability to be summoned and invade others.
you have to give it a bit ,it's not immediate.
3 times I've done it, it worked but it took a couple of minutes to find a match.
How common are the upgrade materials???
I've upgraded my Saw Blade twice -- but now I've unlocked the KirkHammer, I might want to throw a few upgrades it's way. Am I going to run into trouble if I don't min/maxing. Because I really want to give each weapon I get my hands on a fair go, and I don't want to have trouble late game because I didn't specialise in one weapon
I've upgraded my Saw Blade twice -- but now I've unlocked the KirkHammer, I might want to throw a few upgrades it's way. Am I going to run into trouble if I don't min/maxing. Because I really want to give each weapon I get my hands on a fair go, and I don't want to have trouble late game because I didn't specialise in one weapon
hipsterpants
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Better question, where can I find lots of molotovs? I had like 10 of them but used them all on those werewolves. I guess I'll just run through the enemies over and over again. woo
Orthogonal
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It seems broken. In previous Souls games a "blood stain" would show a phantom of the last 10 secs of a player before they died. It can be helpful to get a hint what's coming. So far, I see nothing when selecting them and I assume that is their purpose.
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